Girls swim teams from Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt would both have large presences at Nottingham High School for last weekend’s Salt City Athletic Conference championships.
Immediately, the two sides dueled in the 200-yard medley relay, with the Red Rams’ Amelia Hesler, Emily Ninestein, Gwen Lister and Julia Antoine going 1:55 flat to edge the Hornets’ 1:55.08.
F-M did prevail in the 100 butterfly, where Emma Luttrell posted 1:00.68 to pull away as Ninestein took fourth place in 1:04.44. Later, in the 100 breaststroke, Morgan Kingsley got first place in 1:10.34, edging Lister (1:10.93) and Sofia Bebla (1:11.25) as Meghan Seidberg was fourth and Katie Ottaviano fifth.
Luttrell, Kingsley, Georgia Langan and Hannah Kellogg were second (1:42.27) to Oswego (1:41.75) in the 200 freestyle relay. And in the 400 freestyle relay, Mathews joined Luttrell, Kingsley and Kellogg for second place in 3:48.13 to the Buccaneers’ 3:46.67.
Hesler went on to finish second (25.45 seconds) to Oswego’s Grace Wing (25.38) in the 50 freestyle, and in the 100 freestyle Hesler again was runner-up, her 54.21 seconds just behind the 53.93 from Wing’s teammate, Sydney DeLapp. Antione got third in the 500 freestyle in 5:50.54. Ninestein swam the 100 backstroke in 1:05.19 for fifth place.
Lindsay Mathews, fifth in the 100 butterfly, was second in the 200 individual medley in 2:18.03, just behind Baldwinsville’s Kali Sacco (2:17.60), with Addie Antshel fourth and Meghan Seidberg fifth.
Hannah Kellogg needed 56.68 seconds to get third place in the 100 freestyle. Georgia Langan got fourth place in the 50 freestyle in 26.09 seconds, while Grace Reyna was sixth in the 500 freestyle and Mairead Egan was eighth in the 200 freestyle.
Prior to the league meet, J-D traveled to Auburn last Wednesday night, where the Red Rams improved to 7-2 on the season with a 97-70 victory over the Maroons.
Hesler, Ninestein and Gwen Lister won two races apiece. Hesler swam the 200 freestyle in a season-best 2:00.45 and then claimed the 500 freestyle in 5:27.57 as Ninestein won the 200 IM in 2:32.63 and took the 100 backstroke in 1:07.97.
Lister was first in the 50 freestyle in 26.75 seconds, edging Auburn’s Makenna Wilson (26.76) by one-hundredth of a second before getting first place in the 100 butterfly in 1:07.24.
Bebla had a first-place time of 1:12.48 in the 100 breaststroke after helping Antoine, Claire Huyck and Kathryn Donaghue go 2:05.78 to claim the 200 medley relay. Hesler, Ninestein, Lister and Antoine won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:46.93.
Moving on to the OHSL diving competition on Saturday, J-D’s Emily McGuire finished third, with 313.40 points, while teammate Grace Evans was sixth. F-M’s Gracie Van Bramer and Meaghan Maloney were fourth and fifth, respectively.
Christian Brothers Academy was not in the SCAC meet, but did swim last Tuesday at New Hartford, with the Brothers able to defeat the Spartans 97-83 to improve to 8-1-1 on the season.
Darien Tompkins went under a minute in the 100 butterfly, prevailing in 59.67 seconds, and had a time of 2:06.59 in the 200 freestyle behind the 2:00.14 from Kayla Newman, who also swam the 500 freestyle in a winning 5:24.93.
Lauren Kelly, in 56.10 seconds, beat out Kaitlyn Bushnell (58.47) in the 100 freestyle, this after Bushnell won the 50 freestyle in 26.56 seconds to Sophia Silver’s 27.09. Kelly was second in the 200 IM in 2:18.17 to the 2:15.07 from New Hartford’s Emma Burke.
Sophie Menar scored 226.25 points in diving to beat out the Spartans’ Isabella Kolb (215.20), with Ally Howard winning the 100 backstroke in 1:10.18 and Annah Nizar going 1:15.82 in the 100 breaststroke.
At the start of the meet, Howard, Silver, Kelly and Bushnell won the 200 medley relay in 2:01.32, with Kelly, Silver, Bushnell and Tompkins swimming the 200 freestyle relay in 1:43.49. Newman, Howard, Tompkins and Kathryn Nardella went 4:00.09 in the 400 freestyle relay.
